Its been a while since I have released a new edition to my beloved Colourful Darkness series. This is the first new edition in the last couple years. 

Reason being was that I had struggled with some mental health issues, and grew apart from this part of myself. 

In the process of healing and growing I tended to move away from this part of myself and to try and push different things to reconnect with the passion that I felt I had lost.

The problem was that in doing so I started pushing myself more away from what I loved, and what I have always wanted to represent musically. So I thought I would go back to my roots, and do something true to the person that was so passionate and starry eyed when I started this musical journey. In doing so I feel closer to myself than I have in a long time, and I hope by listening to this you can feel that. 

Its a textbook Colourful Darkness mix, where the focus is on feeling, exploration, and storytelling. This is a new piece of me and I hope you enjoy it.

All rights go to respected artists in this mix.

Colourful Darkness [Vol 016]

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Rhythmic entity with attitude

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Rotterdam based electronic artist. Owner of Fluid. Email jpbzdnht@gmail.com for inquiries.

Co-founder of TOYTOY and half-owner of & Club, Fabio is the quintessential 80’s kid. A product of the music video generation he grew up taping 80’s pop shows to VHS so he could listen to them again and again. But it wasn’t until he began attending raves in the early 90’s that he was first exposed to dance music.

This new sound awoke something in him and he began to seek it out, eventually moving to Europe, working in record stores in London and Eindhoven in the Netherlands, and becoming obsessed with music from Detroit, particularly techno and electro. The characteristic driving rhythms and melodies of which can still be found in the music he plays today, almost 18 years later. Fabio’s style itself is characterised by smooth mixing that transitions easily and he tends to limit his use of effects and gadgetry, letting the music speak for itself. That said, his choice of music can be quite experimental in the right environment, exploring disco, 80’s, indie and electro sounds.

Whatever he chooses to play however, you can be sure that it’s been considered ahead of time, because by his own admission and in his own words: “It’s the music that keeps me coming back week after week, searching for that moment the music flows and that wonderful exchange with the audience begins to happen, it’s like nothing else.” When asked who inspires him, he lists the TOYTOY residents as major influences.

Fabio again: “Even though we all play different music, they play with such passion and conviction that it makes me want to put time and effort into my own sets”.

Colourful Darkness [Vol 016]

Juan-Pierre